Bill of Materials
Excluding a manufacturer part from a BOM in SOLIDWORKS Electrical (2019-current)
You can hide or show components in the BOM using the ‘Exclude from bill of materials’ property located in the Manufacturer part properties dialog box in SOLIDWORKS Electrical as seen in the image below. Please note that this property will be pushed into assemblies and…
When we publish images from SOLIDWORKS Composer specifically Technical Illustrations, it allows us to save .SVG type images and upon opening the images in a web browser we can easily identify corresponding parts in the model by hovering the mouse pointer over line items in…
Is there a way to export specific BOM (Computed BOM or CAD BOM) using SOLIDWORKS PDM export rules? An ability to only export activated BOMs is presented. You should activate specific BOM in Bill of materials Tab in SOLIDWORKS PDM Explorer and turn the flag…
The function of the checkbox in the SOLIDWORKS PDM BOM tab is to activate a computed bill of materials (BOM) in order to show it in the bill of materials view (Explorer > PDM menu > Display > Show Bill of Materials). This flag is…
When working in SOLIDWORKS Composer, there might be a situation were the information that is being expressed in the Bill of Materials (BOM) come from both the part & assembly level. In the article ‘How to create an Assembly Level BOM‘, we learned how to…
Creating a bill of materials to document the different components in an assembly is a near universal task. For caution of the word all, let’s stick with saying that most designers will need to perform this potentially time-consuming activity during their careers. Therefore, it is…
SOLIDWORKS Indented BOM with Single Body Sheet Metal Part
When you create a SOLIDWORKS Indented BOM from an assembly that contains sheet metal or weldment parts it will add further indented rows with the cutlist information. You have the option to show the ‘Detailed cut list’ in the Indented BOM. For weldment files, deselecting…
The SOLIDWORKS BOM typically includes columns linked to Custom Properties in the models. Therefore changes to the Custom Properties in the model will update the drawing BOM. Each cell is linked to the property of that component. However if you double-click on a cell in…
How to combine multiple Custom Properties in a SOLIDWORKS Bill of Materials
When going through the process of creating an assembly drawing, it is beneficial in most cases to make use of Custom Properties listed in individual Bill of Materials (BOM) columns. These could be a Part Description, Part Number, Manufacturer, etc. Sometimes, it may be beneficial…